Health & Safety
Health & Safety
Mining company’s commitment to safety delivers zero fatalities
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Opencast mining contracting company Concor Mining’s commitment from management and its workforce alike, has seen this company achieve a fatality injury frequency rate (FIFR) and a lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR), of zero on both...
By: Fatima Gabru
16th May 2008
Health & Safety
Mining industry still faced with severe challenges
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The high fatality rates in mining are still among the challenges facing South Africa’s mine occupational health and safety (OHS) sector, “There are still more than 200 lives being lost per year at South African mines,” says the Department of...
By: Fatima Gabru
16th May 2008
HEALTH & SAFETY
Outlawed asbestos leaves trail of death, suffering, claims and mining shame
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The Greeks termed the mineral asbestos, as the “miracle mineral”, which became increasingly used in the nineteenth century by a wide range of industries. South Africa was one of the major suppliers of asbestos to the world, having...
16th May 2008
Health & Safety
Presidential mine safety audits on schedule
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The Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) has completed its auditing on 250 mines of about 333 high-risk mines. The audits were ordered by President Thabo Mbeki after 3 200 workers were trapped underground at gold producer Harmony Gold’s...
By: Fatima Gabru
16th May 2008
Health & Safety
Revolutionary boot leaves footprint on local market
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A new extra-large Sault boot with a size 11 toe cap, which is ideally suited for South African male feet which tend to be flatter and broader than in other countries, is being distributed by specialist importer and wholesaler of certified safety...
By: Fatima Gabru
16th May 2008
Health & Safety
Trapped-miner location equipment developed
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A newly developed trapped miner locator system is capable of locating trapped workers at the onset of the search and continuously tracking the miners’ during the process. The system was developed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial...
By: Fatima Gabru
16th May 2008
PLATINUM
New Angloplat CEO hopes to fix miner's safety reputation
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CEO designate of the world's biggest platinum producer, 48-year old mining engineer Neville Nicolau, said on the day of the announcement of his appointment that "safety is our moral licence to operate".
This came after his...
By: Matthew Hill
13th May 2008
SAFETY
New safety move may cut Gold Fields’ output
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JSE-listed miner Gold Fields would soon have its operations scrutinised in an external audit in a bid to improve its "unacceptable" safety record, and is also doing a review that could see it pull out of some pillar and remnant areas,...
By: Matthew Hill
9th May 2008
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